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Irish police join probe into parcel bombs at London transport hubs

By David Milliken

 

Police officers including one wearing a forensic suit, are seen in a cordoned off area at Waterloo station near to where a suspicious package was found, in London, Britain, March 5, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Ireland's police service said on Tuesday it was helping British colleagues investigate who mailed three small bombs to two of London's airports and a major rail station on Tuesday.

 

No one was injured by the devices, one of which caused a small fire in an office building at Heathrow Airport, Europe's busiest air hub.

 

The packages were posted from the Republic of Ireland, according to a senior European government source, and Ireland's police service confirmed it was helping British police to investigate.

 

"The Met Police Counter Terrorism Command is treating the incidents as a linked series and is keeping an open mind regarding motives," London's police force said, declining to comment immediately on a possible Irish link.

 

Conflict over the British-ruled province of Northern Ireland claimed thousands of lives from the late 1960s until the Good Friday peace agreement in 1998, mostly in Northern Ireland but also in mainland Britain and the Republic of Ireland.

 

Small groups opposed to the Good Friday Agreement have remained active since.

 

The United Kingdom is on its second-highest level of terrorism alert, with security services seeing an attack by international terrorists as "highly likely".

 

In 2017, five attacks in London and Manchester killed a total of 36 people.

 

However, the risk of Northern Ireland-related terrorism in mainland Britain was graded as "moderate", meaning an attack was viewed as possible but not likely.

 

London police received the first report of a suspicious device, at Heathrow, at 0955 GMT after staff opened a package which caught fire.

 

Later, a similar package was identified in the post room of London's busiest rail station, Waterloo, and a third was found in an office at London City airport in east London.

 

Flights were unaffected, though a light rail line linking London City with central London was temporarily suspended.

 

(Additional reporting by Mark Hosenball and Graham Fahy in Dublin; editing by Stephen Addison and Gareth Jones)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-03-06

[Proboscis]

Perhaps those politicians who still think that it is ok to ignore the issue of the Good Friday Agreement (AKA the Belfast Agreement), an international treaty, will start to realise that this is not something to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

 

I cannot recall who said it - an historian based in the USA - but it is quite apt. It has to do with attitudes to history. It goes something like - "In the case of Ireland, the English never remember and the Irish never forget."

[Baerboxer]

3 hours ago, Proboscis said:

Perhaps those politicians who still think that it is ok to ignore the issue of the Good Friday Agreement (AKA the Belfast Agreement), an international treaty, will start to realise that this is not something to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

 

I cannot recall who said it - an historian based in the USA - but it is quite apt. It has to do with attitudes to history. It goes something like - "In the case of Ireland, the English never remember and the Irish never forget."

 

It also shows how the illegal terrorist groups in Ireland are still far from inactive and how Irish law enforcement hasn't really got a grip on them.

[rgraham]

Questioning the Irish about bombings. What is the world coming to?

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London explosive packages: Police 'can't confirm' Irish terror link

 

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Counter-terrorism officers say they "cannot confirm" any links between Irish dissidents and explosive packages sent to three transport hubs in London.

Devices delivered to London City Airport, Heathrow Airport and Waterloo Station on Tuesday all had Republic of Ireland stamps.

Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon said officers had found "nothing to indicate motivation of the sender."

He added police have not ruled out the possibility of more being sent